Dan is a PhD candidate at UCL IOE, studying under Dr. Ross Purves and Dr. David Baker. Her research focuses on a newly launched educational policy involving a computer-based assessment in school music education in mainland China, primarily using qualitative research methods. Dan has been a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant for the MA Music Education program at UCL IOE since 2023. Prior to this, she spent three years as a full-time secondary school music teacher in a Chinese public school and one year as a part-time primary school music teacher in China. Dan also observed at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School in Brisbane, Australia, for two weeks in early 2017 and completed a three-month internship at a primary school in China in 2014. Dan holds two master’s degrees. The most recent is an MA in Music Education from UCL IOE, completed in 2021, where she conducted quantitative research on Chinese teachers’ perceptions of school music education. She also holds a Master of Music from the University of Queensland, completed in 2017. Dan earned her bachelor’s degree in Musicology (Music Education) in China in 2015.
special interests
Policy research, teacher agency, music assessment, classroom music education, technology in music education, sociological theories—particularly social class, inequalities in music education, and the relationship between power and politics in music education
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